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The Tin Drum

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Starring Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler

A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.